LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Six death row inmates asked a court this week to order the Arkansas Department of Correction to turn over documents about lethal injection drugs under a public records request.

Attorney Jeff Rosenzweig filed paperwork Monday in Pulaski County also asking the court to declare that all available information about the origin, history and quality of lethal injection drugs must be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act.

“Not only the condemned people, but the people in the state of Arkansas have a right to know what’s being done in their name,” Rosenzweig told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Rosenzweig said a fellow attorney, Josh Lee, asked correction spokeswoman Shea Wilson for records related to lethal injection drugs earlier this month. But according to Rosenzweig’s lawsuit, Wilson said the department didn’t have any new information to release under the state’s new lethal injection law.

Lee wrote back to Wilson, saying he took her response to mean that she had records responsive to his request and that she was refusing to disclose them because of an FOIA exemption in the lethal injection law.

“If this understanding is incorrect, please let me know,” Lee wrote to Wilson, according to Rosenzweig’s lawsuit. Wilson never responded, according to the lawsuit.

Wilson said the agency was reviewing the lawsuit, but she wouldn’t go into details about the suit.

“The Attorney General’s Office will represent us in this case and due to the pending litigation, I cannot comment further,” Wilson said in an email.

A spokesman for Attorney General Dustin McDaniel also declined to comment.

“The prisoners have long had grave concerns about ADC’s ability and willingness to carry out a humane and constitutional execution,” Rosenzweig wrote on behalf of the six inmates. “Those concerns were heightened when, in 2011, the prisoners discovered that the ADC intended to execute them using unregulated, non-FDA-approved chemicals that it obtained from a business operating out of the back of an overseas driving school.”

The six death row inmates involved in the FOIA lawsuit — Stacey Johnson, Jack Jones, Jason McGehee, Bruce Ward, Kenneth Williams and Marcel Williams — were part of a group of condemned prisoners who challenged the constitutionality of a 2009 lethal injection law.

The Arkansas Supreme Court sided with the inmates in June deemed the 2009 law unconstitutional, saying the Legislature had given the Department of Correction “unfettered discretion” to figure out the protocol and procedures for executions, including the chemicals to be used.

The Legislature this year enacted a new lethal injection law that spells out in greater detail the procedures that must be followed. The new law says the state must use a lethal dose of a barbiturate, but leaves it up to the Department of Correction to determine which drug. Correction officials say they haven’t figured out which drug to use yet.

Arkansas doesn’t have any pending executions, but McDaniel’s office has asked the Supreme Court to lift stays of execution for six death row inmates: Don Davis, Johnson, Jones, McGehee, Ward and Marcel Williams. In a separate court filing on Monday, those inmates said the high court should reject the attorney general’s request.

Five of those six inmates also asked the state’s highest court to hear oral arguments in the case, arguing that the Supreme Court must determine whether Arkansas’ new lethal injection law addresses the justices’ concerns that led them to strike down the 2009 law.